Improvement in cases for storing and protecting ribbon



A. C. MASON.

CASES FOR STORING AND PROTECTING RIBBONS.

No, 191,695 Patented June 5,1877.

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ALBERT O. MASON, OF GALESBURG, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF,

W. O. DOUGLAS, AND J. GILHAM, OF WASHINGTON, D. O.

IMPROVEMENT IN CASES FOR STORING AND PROTECTING RIBBON.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,695, dated June5, 1877 application filed May 5, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. MASON, of Galesburg, in the county ofKnox, and in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cases for Storing and Protecting Ribbon; and do hereby(leclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a partof this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved box as arranged for use, and Fig. 2 is a central axial sectionof the same.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

In the packagin g of ribbons and other similar articles of manufacturewithin cases which receive said articles in the form of a roll, and haveone end of the block which forms the axial center of such roll extendedoutward beyond the casing, so as to enable said block to be rotated andthe fabric to be rewound, it has been found that such projecting endprevents the compact storage of the casings, and renders very difficult.the packing of the latter in boxes for transportation, or their properarrangement within the show-cases of dealers.

To remedy this difficulty is the design of my invention, which consists,as an improvement in the means for storing and handling ribbon, in acylindrical casing for -the reception of an axial block, around whichribbons are to be wound, provided with a recess at one end, at its axialcenter, for the reception of the projecting end of said axial block,substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawing, A represents my casing, which has the form of acylinder, and is arranged to open in some suitable manner, so as topermit of the insertion within its interior of a roll of ribbon, B.

The ribbon B is wound round a cylindrical block, 0, which, at its end,is provided with journals 0, that fit into corresponding openings a,which are formed within the ends, at

the axial center of the casing A, by which arrangement said block andribbon are permitted to rotate within said casing.

At the periphery of the casing A is provided a narrow, longitudinalopening, a, through which the ribbon B may be drawn outward.

Upon the projecting end of one of the journals cis formed a button-head,c, which, being outside of the casing A, may be grasped by the fingersof the operator, and the block 0 rotated for the purpose of rewindingsuch ribbon as may have been drawn out of said casing.

In order that the button-head 0 may not project beyond the end of thecasing A, so as to interfere with the packing of a number of suchcasings together, a recess, a, considerably larger than said head, isformed within the end of said casing, and within the same is containedsaid part, as shown.

As thus constructed the casing can be placed with its ends against theends of other casings, in the same manner as though no button-headprojected from the same, by which means a considerable saving in spaceis effected, and the packages rendered less liable to injury fromhandling or shipment.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, whatI claim as new is- As an improvement in the means for storing andhandling ribbons, a cylindrical casing for the reception of an axialblock, around which ribbons are to be wound, provided with a recess atone end, at its axial center, for the reception of the projecting end ofsaid axial block, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this4th day of May, 1877.

A. O. MASON.

Witnesses:

GEO. S. PRINDLE, J AS. E. HUTOHINSON.

